Basic HTML version of Foils prepared October 26 98

Foil 54 There are many Whiteboards

From User View of Tango Features with tutorial NPAC Tutorial on Tango/WebWisdomNT -- October 26 98. by Geoffrey C. Fox


Tango offers two basic whiteboards
  • One has a simple intuitive interface but is not so powerful
  • The other is much powerful but is harder to use
  • This sophisticated whiteboard is also used as part of the WebWisdom shared curricula tool as one optional display mode
The variety of such tools is a key advantage of a framework like Tango -- you can adopt it for your particular application and expect that the open API will allow a variety of basic tools such as whiteboards and chats to be developed to support your application
  • You are not locked into a particular generic support tool
Another whiteboard is used in the popular mapper shared application where one has maps displayed on the whiteboard
  • Pan through the maps with interface at top left
  • Add shared icons, text and freehand drawing



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